I was riding my bike and a hippie looking guy called out to me,"hey my brother", as I rode directly by and then passed him he changed it to,"sorry my sister". I said, t"he first one was good" and waved. I'm pre anything and was wearing my binder for the second time. I have wavy shoulder length hair still. When he called me his brother it was like a shock of electricity right in my gut and a warmth started to spread out from that. it abruptly ended when he tried to "correct"himself but it felt fantastic while it was there and I'm pleased I can pass at all right now in any situation, even that briefly. Iv e been told by people who are used to looking at me that they think when my hair is cut I'll pass l well. I'm still tring to figure what haircut will look best on me and read as guy instead of butch dyke. When I was young and had short hair that I would think of as butch dyke cuts, not mens cuts and was wearing nothing to try to hide my chest our trying to pass I got sirred quite a bit.thats encouraging to me. Anyhow it was cool, it felt great while it lasted and even after he changed his mind about my gender I felt residual warmth and glow.i grinned all the rest of the way to my destination.

Not bad for a first effort at all. Congratulations.

 Congratties ^,^. That first time that they use the right pronouns is always special... not to say that the second through hundredth times aren't special, either, but anyway - something to savour!

I think the first time it happened to me, I was just confused, as I was presenting male (with long hair) at the time.

I have had many occasions where people would gender me correctly in male presentation, and I would usually wonder why it happened.

The most confusing event so far was one time when I was chillin' with a group of girls, one of them who had just arrived (high school) runs up to me yelling "womaaaaan" and grabs me for a hug. I really didn't know what to think at all...

Congrats, mate!  Hold onto that feeling!

Congrats! 

Congrats! isn't that the best feeling?

Congrats!

Epic Dude!!!!

AH dude that's good!!!! Congrats!

That's great! Congrats!

Thanks yall. I'm still feeling good about it. Freakin fantastic actually.thanks for being here to share it with.

Quote from: -JR- on June 06, 2012, 12:20:54 PM
congrats I had the same thing happen last week...I was getting food and the guy said I'll be with you in a second sir then I spoke saying its ok I dont know what I want yet anyway and he said omg I'm very sorry ma'am, I'm really very sorry . I didn't correct him and say he was right the first time though I just got food to go instead because I became extremely uncomfortable with him saying sorry and stressing ma'am over and over.

I hate when that happens yesterday I was walking to work smoking and this guy comes up hey sir, could i get a smoke off you? I said sure, here you go and he apologized after hearing my voice. Kinda irritating sometimes.